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Households in NSW will endure electricity price hikes of up to 9.1 per cent from the new financial year, as big users say bills will remain elevated until the end of the decade amid fresh concerns over a cost blowout to build major renewable energy and transmission projects. 

Meanwhile, a sacked private equity executive turned whistleblower who worked for Brookfield Asset Management in the US, has pleaded with Australian regulators to investigate his claim that Cbus was short-changed $US25m by the Canadian fund manager’s allegedly exploitative conduct.

And a $20m government audit of mobile phone coverage reveals there are swathes of Australia where a Telstra signal can only be accessed with an external antenna, in an apparent contradiction to the telco’s recently revised claims.